GAUHATI UNIVERSITY

			Hr/Week
			L – T – P
1	HU- 166	English	3-1-0	100	75	-
2	MA-171	Mathematics-I	3-1-0	100	50	-
3	CH-131	Chemistry - I	3-1-2	100	50	50
4	Ph-191	Physics - I	3-1-2	100	50	50
5	CE-102	Building materials and Surveying	4-1-3	100	50	50
6	CE-101	Engg. Graphics	1-0-6	100	100	-
7	ME-176	Workshop Practice – I	0-0-3 Total	-- 600	100 450	-- 150

			Hr/Week
			L – T – P
1	EE 236	Basic Electric Engg	3-1-2	100	50	50
2	MA-271	Mathematics-II	3-1-0	100	50	-
3	CH-231	Chemistry - II	3-1-2	100	50	50
4	Ph-291	Physics - II	3-1-2	100	50	50
5	CE-202 ME-278	Engg. Mechanics and Strength of materials	4-1-3	100	50	50
6	ME-277	Engg. Graphics-II	1-0-6	100	50	-
7	ME-276	Workshop Practice – II	0-0-3 Total	-- 600	100 400	-- 200

Note : This is a combined syllabus for WP –I and WP – II. The whole syllabus should be covered in first and second semesters. Max. marks per semester: 100 (Sessional)

1. Carpentry: Use, care and sharpening of common hand tools. Sawing, planning and chiseling. A complete job involving basic carpentry operations and simple wood joints.

Wood working machinery – band saw, circular saw, jointer and thickness planner. Demonstration of the machines.

Different types of timber, method of sawing, suitability for various applications.

Plywood – gluing, synthetic and animal glues. Veneering a job using above materials.

Preservation of timber – seasoning, chemical treatment and painting, varnishing and staining. Marks: 40

2. Fitting and plumbing: Use and care of hand tools, different types of vice, hackshow, files, chisel scribers and markin gauges. Drilling and tapping. A simple job including the use of the above tools and keyway cutting and key fitting (about 12 hours).

Thread cutting and joining of pipes and pipe fittings. A simple job involving these operations. Marks: 40

3. Smithy: Use and care of different tools for forging – anvil, hammers, tongs, swaging blocks, cold and hot chisels. A simple smithy job involving operations with these tools.

Forge welding, hardening, tempering and annealing. A simple job of forge welding. Marks : 30

4. Welding: Use and care of welding equipments, gases used for welding. Gas generation and gas pressure. Filler rods, flux, brazing. A simple job on gas welding and cutting by gas. Arc welding equipment (AC & DC); Care and use. Different types of welding rods. A simple on arc welding. Marks: 30

5. Moulding and Foundry: Hand tools. Moulding sands, pattern types, materials and allowances, Moulding methods, use of gates, risers and runners, cores, chaplets, fettling and finishing of casting defects. A simple job including pattern making, moulding and casting. Marks: 30

6. Machine tools: Introduction to basic machine tools. Use of drilling, sawing, grinding, punching and shearing machines. Demonstration of turning. Marks : 30

1. Principles of graphics: Review of scales, lines, Dimensioning, placing of dimensions, arrangement of dimensions, common features of dimensions, conventional representations of different materials.

2. Orthographic projection: Orthographic projection of standard machine elements, conversion of pictorial views into Orthographic views and vice-versa (1^st and 3^rd angle projection systems).

3. Isometric projection: Isometric axes and scales, isometric projection of plane figures, cube prism, pyramids, cylinder, cone, sphere, charts, graphs, monograms, semi-long and double-long graphs, Rectilinear charts, flowchart.

4. Perspective projection: Visual ray method, Vanishing point method, Perspective projection of simple objects.

5. Graphical representations of informations: Bar charts, Pie charts, rectilinear charts, triangular chart, polar charts, semi-log and log-log graphs, Nomography – Concurrency charts, alignment charts.

1. Forces and Moments: Force, Moment and Couple, Resultant of forces, Equilibrium, FBD, General equations of equilibrium, Analysis of forces in perfect frames.

2. Center of gravity and moment of inertia: Center of gravity of axes, volume and composite bodies; Area moment of inertia and mass moment of inertia for plane figures and bodies.

3. Friction: Introduction to dry friction, laws of friction, friction of simple machines – inclined planes, Screw jacks.

4. Kinetics of rigid bodies: Plane motion, force, mass, acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum, rotational motion - centrifugal force, torque, angular motion and acceleration, angular momentum.